CALGARY \u2014 Jose Maltos kicked the go-ahead 58-yard field goal with 1:10 remaining as the Montreal Alouettes earned a 23-21 win over the Calgary Stampeders at McMahon Stadium on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Maltos had five field goals in the win, and Chris Spieker caught a touchdown pass from quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson for the Alouettes (5-2).<\/p>\n
Dedrick Mills had a pair of rushing touchdowns for the Stampeders (5-2), who had won their previous three games. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Calgary quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. threw a touchdown pass to Dominique Rhymes and also completed a short pass to Erik Brooks in the end zone for a two-point convert after Mills\u2019 second rushing score.<\/p>\n
Near the end of the third quarter, Adams scrambled out of the pocket and ran for a seven-yard gain before he was hit hard by Montreal linebacker Tyrice Beverette. Although he got to his feet and walked to the sidelines, he was assessed for a head injury and didn\u2019t return to the game.<\/p>\n
The Stampeders also lost wide receiver Damien Alford early in the game. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 CFL Draft went down grabbing the back of his right leg in the first quarter and would not return to the game. <\/p>\n
Defensive back Adrian Green picked off an errant pass by Bethel-Thompson for his league-leading fourth interception of the season and ran it back to Montreal\u2019s 44-yard line to help set up Calgary\u2019s first touchdown.<\/p>\n
Four plays later, Mills ran for a seven-yard touchdown with 1:53 remaining in the first quarter, which gave Calgary a 6-0 lead after a missed convert by Rene Paredes.<\/p>\n
The Alouettes looked destined to answer back with a touchdown of their own early in the second quarter after Tyler Snead’s 42-yard diving catch put them at Calgary\u2019s nine-yard line. However, Calgary’s defence stood tall and only allowed a 10-yard field goal by Maltos.<\/p>\n
Adams then engineered a five-play, 77-yard drive that he finished off by tossing a 33-yard TD pass to Rhymes at 5:10 of the second quarter to put the Stamps up 13-3.<\/p>\n
The Als responded at 9:18 when Spieker caught a seven-yard TD pass from Bethel-Thompson to cap off a quick eight-play, 77-yard drive.<\/p>\n
On the ensuing kickoff, Maltos booted an 88-yard single to pull the Als within two points of the Stamps.<\/p>\n
Both teams then struggled offensively before Maltos finished off the first half by making a 36-yard field goal with no time left on the clock to put Montreal ahead 14-13.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t take the Stamps long to retake the lead as they drove the ball 65 yards down the field before Mills ran in for a nine-yard score on the sixth play of the drive at 3:43 of the third quarter. After a successful two-point convert, the Stamps took a 21-14 edge.<\/p>\n
Thanks to a pair of field goals by Maltos in the fourth quarter \u2013 a 27-yard kick at 6:22 and another from 20 yards out at 12:17 \u2013 Montreal cut Calgary\u2019s lead to just 21-20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 Jose Maltos kicked the go-ahead 58-yard field goal with 1:10 remaining as the Montreal Alouettes earned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-22289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}